1. Lynne Sachs was born on 1961 and is an American experimental filmmaker and poet living in Brooklyn, New York.
14 Facts About Lynne Sachs
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Lynne Sachs's moving image work ranges from documentaries, to essay films, to experimental shorts, to hybrid live performances.
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Lynne Sachs graduated from Brown University with a major in history, and a focus on studio art.
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Lynne Sachs developed an interest in experimental documentary filmmaking while attending the 1985 Robert J Flaherty Documentary Film Seminar through a scholarship.
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Lynne Sachs took her first media arts classes at Global Village and Downtown Community Television Center in New York City.
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Soon thereafter, Lynne Sachs moved to San Francisco to attend San Francisco State University and later the San Francisco Art Institute.
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From 1994 to 2006 Lynne Sachs worked in geographic locations affected by international war, such as Vietnam, Bosnia, Israel and Germany.
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Lynne Sachs returned to Argentina in 2008 to film her first narrative project, Wind in Our Hair, inspired by the short stories of Julio Cortazar.
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In 2010, Lynne Sachs teamed up with her brother Ira Lynne Sachs and decided to adapt his short film Last Address into an exterior window installation on the sides of the Kimmel Center in Manhattan, New York.
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In 2013, Lynne Sachs completed the hybrid-documentary Your Day is My Night which features residents of a New York City Chinatown shift-bed apartment sharing their stories of personal and political upheaval.
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In 2020, Lynne Sachs premiered her feature documentary Film About a Father Who as the opening night film at Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
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Lynne Sachs' work has been supported by fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and Jerome Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts as well as residencies at the Experimental Television Center and the MacDowell Colony.
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In 2014, Lynne Sachs received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in film and video.
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Lynne Sachs has taught at New York University, Hunter College, The New School, Maryland Institute, and the University of California, Berkeley.